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This CD could be the cornerstone of your choral music library! Wonderful performances of all of the essential choral pieces give a wonderful introduction to choral music for someone new to it, and also give a nice sampler of the best pieces for someone already familiar with the music. Listening to each excerpt may inspire you to purchase the entire work!
As you would expect of performances by Robert Shaw’s groups, these performances are really extraordinary and show the best of American choral singing.
The three stars I have given this album are not for the performances, which are all tremendous and deserve five stars or more, but for the idea of releasing this sort of compilation. Every single one of these selections is part of a larger Shaw-recorded work already released by Telarc, and you are far better off seeking the complete recordings that all these pieces are from, than just buying a mere “sampler”. (Shaw, however, never did get around to recording the complete ” L’ Enfance du Christ”.) Of course, that can be very expensive for some people, and if one cannot afford all those recordings, I suppose this is the next best thing. One can’t shake off the feeling, however, that because Shaw is no longer with us, Telarc is desperately trying to give the impression that “new” Shaw recordings are constantly being released by them, when the truth is that nearly all the new ones are mere recyclings. (The last complete Robert Shaw album released by Telarc was Dvorak’s “Stabat Mater”, a CD well worth buying.)